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The Aesthetics of Collective Agency

Corporations, Communities and Crowds in the Twenty-First Century
  • Edited by: Simone Knewitz , Stefanie Mueller , Moritz Ingwersen , Solvejg Nitzke , Regina Schober and Jens Temmen
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional institutions of Western liberal democracies still wield significant political power, new forms of collective agency – most visible in progressive social protest movements, but also in the global rise of populism – have increasingly put pressure on established systems of collective organization. The contributors to this volume explore the social, political, and aesthetic forms that collective agency takes in the twenty-first century across a variety of media, including social platforms such as TikTok, multiplayer video games, and contemporary lyric poetry.

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Contributor: Solvejg Nitzke

Solvejg Nitzke (Dr. phil.), geb. 1985, ist Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin und vertritt derzeit die Professur für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Sie erforscht prekäre Naturen in der populären Literatur und Kultur des 19. Jahrhundert, Klima und Katastrophen, Science- Fiction und Verschwörungsnarrative. Von 2021 bis 2023 leitete sie das von der Fritz- Thyssen-Stiftung geförderte Projekt »Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume«, das untersucht, wie Menschen und Bäume durch das Erzählen neu in Beziehung gebracht werden. Publikationen (Auswahl): »Arboreale Poetik, oder: Mit Bäumen erzählen«, in: Stephanie Heimgarter/Solvejg Nitzke/Simone Sauer Kretschmer (Hg.): Baum und Text, Berlin: Bachmann 2020, S. 165-196; Arboreal Imaginaries, Hg. Mit Helga Braunbeck, Special Issue. Green Letters 4 (2021). Kontaktszenen, Hg. Mit Lars Koch und Niels Werber, Sonderheft. Lili, 3 (2022).


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Simone Knewitz and Stefanie Mueller
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I. Key Concepts

Simone Knewitz
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Martin Butler
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Alexander Starre
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James Dorson
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Regina Schober
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II. Digital Environments

Jan-Felix Schrape
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Matti Kangaskoski
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Heather Suzanne Woods
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III. Narrating Collectivity Beyond the Human

Marco Caracciolo
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Stefanie Mueller
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IV. New Forms of Collective Activism

Natalya Bekhta
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Katharina Motyl
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Katharina Fackler
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Appendix

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October 23, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783839468159
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270
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